THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2006
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Jayhawks Darnell Jackson, Sherron Collins, and Rodrick Stewart hang their heads as Wednesday night's game comes to a close. Unable to keep up with Oral Roberts' shooting, Kansas lost 78-71.
Green was just shy of a tripledouble with 20 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists.
"Any NBA scout would tell you Caleb Green was the best player in the game," said Kansas coach Bill Self.
Vealy, who was 1-for-13 from a 2-point range in his career
veally, who was three-point range coming into the game, went off, nailing seven of eight three-point attempts on his way to a 22-point night.
"We knew No. 10 was good, but we did not know he was that good," Robinson said.
"If you'd told us before the game that bed so for-8
stepped up and put the team on his shoulders;
Perhaps most troubling for the jayhawks was that no key players
This team needs to climb a mountain. It can't start there. It's not mature, hungry and tough enough vet
Sophomore guard Brandon Rush, who led Kansas to victory in its season opener, could never get on track. He didn't score his first point of the game until he sank a free throw at the 5:07 mark in the first half and didn't make his first field
goal until the 4:32 mark. He tried to get himself going, but ended the night shooting 5-for-14.
BILL SELF Coach
Sophomore forward Julian Wright grabbed 12 rebounds, but was careless with the ball, appearing to be forcing shots and passes. Win his points.
"Rush never got into the game,"
Self said. "And Julian never got
into the game. His stats say he got rebounds, but he never got into the game."
Overshadowed in the loss was a stellar performance by freshman forward Darrell Arthur. Coming off the bench, he played beyond his years. Arthur led the Jayhawks in scoring with 22 and rebounded five times.
With so few bright spots, the most the fayhawks can do is learn from this game and, perhaps, learn to pay heed to their coach's warnings.
"This team needs to climb a mountain. It can't start there," Self said. "It's not mature, hungry and tough enough yet. They need to climb it. Now there's no question that it will be more of a climb now since we got our butts kicked today."
Kansan sportswriter Shawn
Shroyer can be contacted at
sshroyer@kansan.com.
Edited by Natalie Johnson
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Oral Roberts forward shines Green, Vealy punish Jayhawks inside paint, beyond arc
BY RYAN SCHNEIDER
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Julian Wright, sophomore forward, blocks a shot by Oral Roberts' Ken Tutt during the first half of Wednesday night's game in Allen Fieldhouse. Wright's defensive play totaled five blocks, nine rebounds, and two steals.
There's no way he could have imagined the biggest victory in school history, a 78-71 upset of No. 3 Kansas.
Caleb Green dreamed of playing at Allen Fieldhouse, but he had no idea it would turn out like this.
It certainly is.
"I told him a while ago, back when Wayne Simien was here," Green said about Oral Roberts coach Scott Sutton. "I said I just thought it'd be nice to come play those guys. Oh man, this is a big win for the University."
While Green, who is ranked among the nation's top power forwards, was expected to do some damage because of Kansas' lack of depth in the paint, Marchhello Vealy's performance surprised even Sutton.
Entering the game, Vealy had made just one three pointer in his career and had a career-high of just 12 points. Those records were destroyed Wednesday night.
Vealy finished with 22 points, including a 7-of-8 performance from the three point line.
One of the keys for Vealy was the fact that he was wide open for most of the night. With the Jayhawks' defense concerned with stopping Green, Vealy was left open on the wing.
the young season, finishing with 20 points, including 11 points in the second half.
"I wasn't paying attention," he said. "I was just shooting the ball. Every time I caught it, they all kept telling me to shoot."
Kansas double teamed Green on most plays, but he found ways to escape the defense and get open outside. The 6-foot-8 Green nailed two three pointers, tying his career high. Green had his best night of
He did. And Vealy shot lights-out all night.
"In the scouting report, we went over that he was a good shooter, but we did not think he was a shooter like that," Kansas' Brandon Rush said.
"Caleb was unbelievable," Sutton said. "He was terrific. He was forced to face double teams and go against big strong guys. He had some great shots, but I thought his passing was unbelievable as well."
Green had his way in the paint without forward Sasha Kaun in the lineup because of a knee injury. Kansas struggled to contain Green, especially in the second half when Green nailed several turnaround shots.
In pregame warm-ups and in the
moments before the opening tip-off,
Valey admitted to being nervous.
The big crowd and large arena were like nothing he'd experienced before.
But that didn't matter Wednesday night.
"We wanted to come out and shock the world." Vealy said.
"And we did it."
Kansan senior sportswriter Ryan Schneider can be contacted at rschneider@kansan.com.
Edited by Derek Korte
Oral Roberts 78. Kansas 71
Oral Roberts Kansas
39 39----78
34 37----71
**Oral Roberts** — Ogunneye 0-2-0-0, Green 7-16-4-5-2, King 3-3
0-0-6, Tutt 3-15-4-6-12, Liberty 4-6-4-6-12, Sango 3-5-0-0-6, Vealy 7-10
1-2, 224, Embehe 1-0-0-0, Totals 27-58 13-19.78
**Kansas** — Wright 3-10 0-0 6, Jackson 4-8 2-2 10, Robinson 2-8 2-5
6, Chalmers 5-10 2-3 13, Sushman 5-14 3-7 14, Arthur 10-16 2-4 22, Collins
0-1 0-0 1, Stewart 0-0 0-0, Kleinmann 0-0 0-0, Totals 29 67 11 21 71
Records — Kansas 1-1 Oral Roberts 1-1
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"It is good for football fans in the
The interest at both schools is high for Saturday's match-up. Less than 500 tickets remained as of Wednesday afternoon. Plenty of purple will dot Memorial Stadium Saturday. K-State took its full allotment of 3,800 tickets, the first visiting school to take the maximum number of tickets this season for a Kansas home game.
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the early part of this decade, but in the past two seasons the games have been close and both schools have come away with one victory.
Chelsea Bachman, Overland Park junior, attended Kansas State her freshman year before transferring to Kansas. She grew up a Wildcat fan because her dad went to K-State and had season tickets throughout her childhood. She said the rivalry meant a lot to both schools but, because of the recent success of K-State's football program, she said a victory for Kansas fans would mean
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"A win is expected there" she said. "It's annoying."
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